The Measure of Times Past: Pre-Newtonian Chronologies and the Rhetoric of Relative Time - Rilegato

Wilcox, Donald J.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0226897214 ISBN 13: 9780226897219

Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 1987

Riassunto

In this extraordinary work, Donald J. Wilcox seeks to discover an approach to narrative and history consistent with the discontinuous, relative time of the twentieth century. He shows how our B.C./A.D. system, intimately connected to Newtonian concepts of continuous, objective, and absolute time, has affected our conception and experience of the past. He demonstrates absolute time's centrality to modern historical methodologies and the problems it has created in the selection and interpretation of facts. Inspired by contemporary fiction and Einsteinian concepts of relativity, he concludes his analysis with a comparison of our system with earlier, pre-Newtonian time schemes to create a radical new critique of historical objectivity.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

David J. Wilcox is professor of history at the University of New Hampshire.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Chicago Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0226897214
• ISBN 13: 9780226897219
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 304